I just hit 50 and respecced to Lethality for Flashpoints and Operations with my guild so I don't have any practical experience with the build. Reading what you posted as your rotation, wouldn't you use Weakening Blast before Corrosive Dart and Corrosive Grenade to take advantage of the 30% damage buff? If you're really using Weakening Blast as just a generic attack rather than as a setup for the DoT's, maybe that's what's contributing to the lower DPS numbers. Again, I'm just speculating since I don't have any practical experience with Lethality yet (I leveled as Concealment). FYI...this is the build I'm starting out with: Operative Lethality build on Torhead

I just hit 50 on my Operative and decided to respec to Lethality for running Flashpoints and Operations with my guild. Thank you very much for putting this together. It gives me a great starting point to see if Lethality will work for me and my guild.

This is the best rational for this side of the argument I've read to date across all threads on this topic. While I still lean towards the side of "need" for the character, not the companion or the looks, after reading this argument I doubt I'll get upset over the issue any more. In fact, I may even consider rolling "need" for my companion or looks in the future.

You're not alone OP. Even with the bugs (I can't think of any title that is 100% bug free), I'm enjoying this game immensely. Yes, I still play WoW as well. I will continue to play both games until the servers go down. It seems like the bulk of the naysayers are rabid PvP'ers and "Hardcore" raiders who use MMOs as an ePeen. Once I'm off work and out of this training class, I'll be in-game and off the forums until the next time I've got a half hour or so to kill. As has been noted before, those enjoying the game tend to just play while those who feel slighted or need their ego stroked, come to the forums and create doom and gloom posts without providing any real, actionable ideas for improvement (because they're all able to create a better AAA game than any BioWare/EA developer...just look at the games they've written already....).

Negative Feedback is only useful if it includes realistic suggestions for correcting or improving the feature in question. I see way too many negative posts with "suggestions" which reveal that the poster has no clue what's involved in creating a game these days. For everyone saying BioWare/EA has incompetent developers, where's your AAA game? If you have one, post the link so we can all check it out. If you don't like the game AND you don't have any real, actionable suggestions for improvement, then un-sub and quit clogging up the forums with way too many useless threads.

No performance issues on either my work laptop nor my home desktop. I don't PvP so I doubt I'll ever experience the "Ilum Zerg". For all the PvE, Heroics and Flashpoints I do, zero issues...even after today's patch.

45 year old System Engineer here and yes, I am guilty of logging on from the office occasionally too. Oh...and Sith/Empire all the way

LOL...I was afraid to post a thread asking as well for fear of the flaming that often occurs on forums when someone can't figure out how to use the forum software.

It's difficult to judge how body type in particular will end up looking in gear as you level up. I for one created a male character with body type 3 and while it looked appropriate at the character creation screen, it's now become comical as I've been leveling him up. My biggest complaint is that most boots make him look like he's got clown feet. While I agree that perhaps major changes (body type, race, etc.) shouldn't be allowed frequently, they should be allowed at some cost, be it money and/or time. Minor changes such as hair and jewelry should be allowed more frequently at a much lower cost of money and/or time IMHO. Immersion also comes from being satisfied with your character's appearance and not being forced to play a character that doesn't fit your desired look and feel. After playing a character much past lvl 20, not everyone is willing to ditch that time and effort to re-roll.